Meditation -- Step one: Equanimity -- Equality -- Motivation -- Awareness of death -- Facing horror -- Lifetimes -- Step two: Recognizing friends -- Everyone as a friend -- Making progress -- Valuing others -- Step three: Reflecting on others' kindess -- Ways others are kind -- Step four: Returning kindess -- Reciprocating on your own terms -- Step five: Love -- Meditating love -- Step six: Compassion -- Overview of compassion -- Compassion seeing suffering beings -- Compassion seeing evanescent beings -- Compassion seeing empty beings -- Compassion and wisdom combined.
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"The Dalai Lama often says, "Kindness is society." By learning to live from a more compassionate viewpoint, Jeffrey Hopkins writes, we can create a better life not only for ourselves but for everyone. In A Truthful Heart, Hopkins uses Buddhist meditations (including the Dalai Lama's favorite), visualizations, and entertaining recollections from his own life to guide us in developing an awareness of the capacity for love inside us and learning to project that love into the world around us." "Delivering a potent message with the power to change our relationships and improve the quality of our lives, A Truthful Heart is the ideal book for an age in which our dealings with each other seem increasingly impersonal - and even violent and aggressive. Anyone seeking release from anger and hurt, or simply wanting to increase the love and caring among us, will welcome this timely vision for humanity."--BOOK JACKET.